Joan of England, Queen of Scotland

Joan of England

Queen consort of Scotland
Tenure	21 June 1221 – 4 March 1238

Born	(1210-07-22)22 July 1210
Died	4 March 1238(1238-03-04) (aged 27) Havering-atte-Bower
Burial	Tarrant Abbey, Dorset
Spouse	Alexander II, King of Scots m. 21 June 1221; dec. 1238
House	House of Plantagenet
Father	John, King of England
Mother	Isabella of Angoulême

Joan of England (22 July 1210 – 4 March 1238), was Queen consort of Scotland from 1221 until her death.^[1]^[2]

She was the third child of John, King of England^[3] and Isabella of Angoulême.

Life

Joan was brought up in the court of Hugh X of Lusignan who was promised to her in marriage from an early age, as compensation for him being jilted by her mother Isabella, however on the death of John of England, Isabella decided she should marry him herself and Joan was sent back to England, where negotiations for her hand with Alexander II of Scotland were taking place.

She and Alexander married on 21 June 1221, at York Minster.^[4] Alexander was twenty-three. Joan was ten, almost eleven. They had no children. Joan died in her brother's arms at Havering-atte-Bower in 1238, and was buried at Tarrant Crawford Abbey in Dorset.^[5]^[6]

Henry III continued to honour Joan’s memory for the rest of his life. Most dramatically, in late 1252, almost fourteen years after her death, Henry ordered the production of the image of a queen in marble for Joan’s tomb, at the cost of 100s. This was one of the first funerary effigies of a queen in England; the tradition developed in the early thirteenth century, but the tombs of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Berengaria of Navarre were in France. Nothing now remains of this church; the last mention of it is before the Reformation. It is said that she is now buried in a golden coffin in the graveyard.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Joan of England, Queen of Scotland

16. Fulk of Jerusalem

8. Geoffrey V of Anjou

17. Ermengarde of Maine

4. Henry II of England

18. Henry I of England

9. Empress Matilda

19. Matilda of Scotland

2. John of England

20. William IX of Aquitaine

10. William X of Aquitaine

21. Philippa of Toulouse

5. Eleanor of Aquitaine

22. Aimery I of Châttellerault

11. Aenor de Châtellerault

23. Dangereuse de L' Isle Bouchard

1. Joan of England, Queen of Scots

24. Wulgrin II Taillifer, Count of Angoulême

12. William IV Taillifer, Count of Angoulême

25. Panica de la Marche

6. Aymer Taillifer, Count of Angoulême

26. Raymond I, Viscount of Turenne

13. Marguerite de Turenne

27. Matilda de la Perche

3. Isabella of Angoulême

28. Louis VI of France

14. Peter of Courtenay

29. Adelaide of Maurienne

7. Alice of Courtenay

30. Reinald de Courtenay

15. Elizabeth de Courtenay

31. Hedwig du Donjon

Notes

^ Annales de Dunstaplia
^ Annales de Theokesberia
^ The Annals of Worcester
^ Agnes Mure Mackenzie, The Foundations of Scotland (1957), p. 251.
^ Mackenzie, p. 260.
^ A Medieval Chronicle of Scotland: The Chronicle of Melrose

Preceded by Ermengarde de Beaumont	Queen consort of Scotland 1221–1238	Succeeded by Marie de Coucy

Scottish royal consorts

Gruoch (c. 1040 – 1057)
Ingibiorg Finnsdottir (1058–1069)
Margaret of Wessex (1070–1093)
Ethelreda of Northumbria (1093–1094)
Sybilla of Normandy (1107–1122)
Maud of Northumbria (1124–1130)
Ermengarde de Beaumont (1186–1214)
Joan of England (1221–1238)
Marie de Coucy (1239–1249)
Margaret of England (1251–1275)
Yolande de Dreux (1285–1286)
Elizabeth de Burgh (1306–1327)
Joan of The Tower (1329–1362)
Margaret Drummond (1364–1369)
Euphemia de Ross (1371–1386)
Anabella Drummond (1390–1401)
Joan Beaufort (1424–1437)
Mary of Guelders (1449–1460)
Margaret of Denmark (1469–1486)
Margaret Tudor (1503–1513)
Madeleine of Valois (1537)
Mary of Guise (1538–1542)
Francis II of France (1558–1560)
Henry, Duke of Albany (1565–1567)
James, Earl of Bothwell (1567)
Anne of Denmark (1589–1619)
Henrietta Maria of France (1625–1649)
Catherine of Braganza (1662–1685)
Mary of Modena (1685–1688)
George, Duke of Cumberland (1702–1707)

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